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The Anachronist
John Skylar, in some timelines, is a Professor of Anachronism at the University of Constantinople, but mostly he is a bioscientist and SF author living in New York City. You can follow johnskylar.com on tumblr or on twitter as johnskylar. If you live in New York, you might enjoy a chat with him at the Immodest Proposals discussion series, which he started with Better Worlds.
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Space Activity Suit
Since the 1960s, NASA has also investigated spacesuits that utilize mechanical pressure rather than pressurized gas to protect an astronaut. Such a “space activity suit” is essentially an allover skin-tight leotard, which would be very lightweight and provide far less impediments to motion than traditional spacesuits. As well, a small tear in the suit would only affect the area exposed by the hole rather than cause a potentially deadly decompression event. The only area of the suit that would need to be pressurized is the astronaut’s helmet.
(Photograph by Douglas Sonders)
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